Terror fears on Oz reactor

Police believe a nuclear reactor in southern Sydney was a possible target of a Sydney-based Islamic terror cell, according to details of Australia's biggest-ever counter-terror investigation released today.

Police believe a nuclear reactor in southern Sydney was a possible target of a Sydney-based Islamic terror cell, according to details of Australia's biggest-ever counter-terror investigation released today.

Police previously stopped and questioned three recently arrested Sydney terror suspects near Australia's only nuclear reactor in December last year, according to an alarming outline of police allegations.

Mazen Touma, Mohammed Elomar and Abdul Rakib Hasan were stopped by state police near the nuclear facility at Lucas Heights, in southern Sydney, in December 2004.

The men had an off-road motorbike and told police they were in the semi-rural area to ride it, the document said.

When interviewed separately, however, all three men gave different versions of the day's events, the document said.